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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!cronkite.cisco.com!usenet.cisco.com!shaker From: shaker@lager.cisco.com (Christopher J. Shaker) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Three button mouse and XFree86 V2.0 Date: 9 Feb 94 02:48:35 Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc., Menlo Park, CA Lines: 57 Distribution: world Message-ID: <SHAKER.94Feb9024835@lager.cisco.com> References: <2iab81$om6@agate.berkeley.edu> <2ilj1lINN2dh@clinet.fi> <2incg7$off@u.cc.utah.edu> <2iu6akINNst1@clinet.fi> <2iud53$3fi@agate.berkeley.edu> <JEM.94Feb8104149@delta.hut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lager.cisco.com In-reply-to: jem@snakemail.hut.fi's message of 08 Feb 1994 08:41:48 GMT In article <JEM.94Feb8104149@delta.hut.fi> jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes: Path: cronkite.cisco.com!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!nntp!jem From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Date: 08 Feb 1994 08:41:48 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 21 Distribution: usa References: <2iab81$om6@agate.berkeley.edu> <2ilj1lINN2dh@clinet.fi> <2incg7$off@u.cc.utah.edu> <2iu6akINNst1@clinet.fi> <2iud53$3fi@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: delta.hut.fi In article <2iud53$3fi@agate.berkeley.edu> rsutton@congo.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Roy Allen Sutton) writes: > 1) The current MicroSoft mouse driver in Xfree2.0 does > not support three mouse buttons. Newer versions of > the MicroSoft mouse protocal does incoporate three buttons, > but these drivers are not included with the distributed > version of XF 2.0. Wrong. It is Microsoft that does not support three mouse buttons. XFree86 has always supported three buttons with the *Logitech* extension of the Microsoft mouse protocol. I have used a Logitech Pilot mouse with all three buttons since before XFree86 was called XFree86, with the Microsoft keyword in Xconfig. "Microsoft(tm) mice only have two buttons by definition." -- Johan Myréen jem@cs.hut.fi 60°11'55" N, 24°53'30" E Johan's comments are CORRECT, judging by my experience. As I said before, my three button Logitech 'First Mouse', Logitech model number M-MD15L-9F, works just fine with the Microsoft mouse driver in XFree 1.3 *and* in XFree 2.0 on FreeBSD. ALL THREE BUTTONS WORK. I'm using it as I type this note from home via compressed SLIP. Chris Shaker -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | All opinions are completely my own, and do NOT | | represent my employer. | +-------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Christopher J. Shaker | email: shaker@cisco.com | | Cisco Systems, Inc. | | | P.O. Box 3075 | | | 1525 O'Brien Drive | Phone: +1 415.688.7886 | | Menlo Park, CA 94025 | Fax: +1 415.903.0552 | +-------------------------------------------------------+